Advocacy News – June 29, 2021<\/b><\/p>\n
Employers all across Michigan are experiencing unprecedented workforce challenges.\u00a0 While much of this may be due to increased unemployment benefits, some of it is also due to the lack of affordable childcare.\u00a0 The Michigan Chamber, alongside other partners from the business community, has been working towards solving the workforce challenges of our members by concentrating on many areas – childcare being one of them.<\/p>\n
In an effort to keep the issue at the forefront of policy makers\u2019 minds, the Chamber signed the letter<\/a> clearly outlining solutions to the problem employees are facing with respect to convenient and affordable childcare.\u00a0 The letter was sent to the Governor and key members of the House and Senate.<\/p>\n The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on childcare providers.\u00a0 We must help get these businesses back to full strength by tapping into federal COVID relief money and addressing state policies that are unnecessary and burdensome.<\/p>\n For more information on the Chamber\u2019s work on promoting convenient and affordable healthcare, please contact\u00a0Dan<\/span>\u00a0Papineau at\u00a0dpapineau@michamber.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Advocacy News – June 29, 2021 Employers all across Michigan are experiencing unprecedented workforce challenges.\u00a0 While much of this may be due to increased unemployment benefits, some of it is also due to the lack of affordable childcare.\u00a0 The Michigan Chamber, alongside other partners from the business community, has been working towards solving the workforce […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14340,"href":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6878\/revisions\/14340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michamber.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}